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Blakely, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Lane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29590. The Survey maps it on the Blakely quadrangle.

Blakely within Williamsburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

949 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 949 fires within 5 miles of Blakely between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,656 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 341 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism341
Missing data/not specified/undetermined323
Debris and open burning239
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blakely in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBlakely$3,000Trees reported down on Blakely Road.
October 2015Flash FloodBlakely$2,000Portions of Blakely Road were flooded near the intersection with Seabrook Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBlakely$1,000A tree was blown down at the intersection of US-521 and Seabrook Rd north of the Trio Community.

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Taft1.4 miles8
Trio2.2 miles8
Carris4.0 miles8
Tisdale5.4 miles8
Martin Corner6.4 miles8
Earle6.7 miles8
Lane6.7 miles8
Bryans Crossroads6.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231061. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.